Alan Dixon is on a slippery slope. Albert Hofeld is bogged down on a sloppy track. Carol Moseley Braun has clear footing ... do more than his opponents for Illinois on Capitol Hill or if he ...

Albert Hofeld tried to set himself apart from two veteran Illinois politicians during ... himself the odd man out. Sen. Alan Dixon and Carol Moseley Braun collaborated during the only televised ...

Dixon of Illinois, the Metro East Democrat whose nickname ... who ended his career — while making history. Carol Moseley Braun, then Cook County recorder of deeds, challenged Dixon for ...

Alan started the first bipartisan Illinois ... said. Dixon was a two-term senator who was defeated in a March 17, 1992 Democratic primary for re-nomination by Carol Moseley Braun, a stunning ...

You bet. In death, the accolades have poured in for Dixon from Republicans and Democrats alike, including former Illinois Gov. James Thompson, a Republican, and Braun herself, who noted that the ...

(Dennis Cook/AP) Former U.S. senator Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat whose career ... in the 1992 Democratic primary to Carol Moseley Braun. In the Senate, Mr. Dixon served as the third-ranking ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat whose career in national and state politics spanned more than 40 consecutive years in public office, died Sunday, his son said.

Dixon lost to Braun and never returned to politics again, eventually returning to a law career and publishing his autobiography, “The Gentleman from Illinois: Stories from Forty Years of ...

(AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat whose career in national and state politics spanned more than 40 consecutive years in public office, died today, his son said. He was 86.

CHICAGO | Former U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat whose career in national and state politics spanned more than 40 consecutive years in public office, died Sunday, his son said.